The weight of the past comes crashing down on a pair of ex-lovers in Chinese director Cai Shangjun’s latest drama, which asks whether it’s possible to forgive and forget — or even to go on living when ...

Freud thought that, at least for some of us, the guilt comes before the crime. Seeking punishment for a pre-existing (probably Oedipal) feeling of shame and inadequacy, some of the incarcerated seek a ...

This year marks the centennial of “The Sun Also Rises,” the debut novel of Ernest Hemingway, an anniversary that arrives with a familiar complication. Few major American novels are so widely taught, ...